Seth Harris

My photography explores the interplay of light, shape, and time—discovering beauty within the abstract details of everyday experience. The decision to work almost exclusively during the full Moon infuses the images with notions of finitude and recurrence in the creative process.

On the right night, the Moon’s ethereal glow transforms familiar spaces into what feels like a photographic negative of the sun. The full Moon serves as both subject and collaborator— its distinctive glow reveals new dimensions of the world, casting familiar forms in unexpected, reflective light with each lunar event marking an ephemeral alignment that cannot be replicated. The images serve as quiet meditations on time, perception, and the thresholds between the ordinary and the sublime.

As an alternative to producing traditional lunar photography, the abstract images I create are intentional. Rather than simply photographing the Moon, I use it as a medium—a brush made of reflected sunlight—to paint with light. My goal is for the image itself to captivate first, with the viewer’s realization that the Moon was the source of that light serving as a quiet meditation on rhythm and impermanence; a reminder of the finite number of full moons one may witness ...

Kenyon College - BA - 1988

Seth Harris has collaborated with some of the most accomplished artists & design teams in the world.

In 2014 Seth merged his passions for art & surfing curating “The Bowery Project” - a collection of artworks on surfboards by artists including Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, Tom Sachs, Robert Williams, Ron English, Dana Louise Kirkpatrick, Ben Eine, Len Prince, Magda Sayeg, ELLE, Kevin T. Kelly, and others.

The Bowery Project debuted at the Patagonia surf shop in NYC and served as the centerpiece of a fundraising auction for Surfers Healing, a foundation that provides surf camps to autistic children and their families.

Seth has designed, produced, and installed a global series of murals for Abercrombie & Fitch in London, Madrid, Singapore, Shanghai, Seoul, Hong Kong, Hamburg, Munich, Dusseldorf, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen.

He has designed merchandising fixtures for the Hard
Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and a series of original artworks for Burger King based on the artwork of
iconic artists from DaVinci to Warhol.

Seth’s t-shirt designs have been featured on six seasons
of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, episodes of Entourage, Chelsea Lately, and Keeping up with the Kardashians